Broken April - Hardcover

Kadare, Ismail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941533573 ISBN 13: 9780941533577

Publisher: New Amsterdam Books, 1998

Synopsis

Two destinies intersect in this novel -- that of Gjorg, a young mountaineer who has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the code of the highlands; and that of a young couple who have come to study the age-old customs, including the blood feud.

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Review:

Albania's most valuable literary export: the novels of Ismail Kadare.--Ken Kalfus "Village Voice Literary Supplement "

A major international novelist.--Herbert Mitgang "The New York Times "

Ismail Kadare's fiction has been compared with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Certainly he induces that same ironic double-take in his readers, by means of the child's magical view of life that is larger than most adults realize--Leonie Caldecott "The New York Times "

Ismail Kadare is a writer who maps a whole culture--its history, its passion, its folklore, its politics, its disasters. He is a universal writer in a tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer.--Professor John Carey, Committee Chair, Man Booker International Prize 2005

Book Description:

'By any standard this is a considerable novel' Sunday Telegraph

About this edition

• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0941533573
• ISBN 13: 9780941533577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216